Edward Norton is Bruce Banner (Hulk Movie)

[B.Serum]

Zak Penn (the writer) recently talked about the upcoming movie here.

@Zak Penn

To me, the thing about Bruce is that he’s a physicist, he’s a super-smart guy who has a lot of repressed anger. To me, that is the essential thing you need to know about him. He could be tall or short, but you have to believe that he’s a physicist, you have to believe that life is frustrating for him physically. Ed went to Yale. He’s a really smart guy. He has an intelligence that you can see on-screen, which a lot of people who are great actors don’t project that. He projects the guy that is smarter than you, and he also projects anger in a lot of his movies, ‘Fight Club’ being the most obvious example. If you think about ‘Fight Club,’ he has a lot of similarities to the Hulk as a character. Tyler Durden is his Hulk.

He also goes on to talk about how this movie relates and doesn’t relate to the first movie and a little bit of an Avengers tease.

[Spoke]

I’m sure glad I saved my HULK HANDS[sub]TM[/sub]

[simster]

@spoke-

I just hope Hulk learns to talk this time, so he can utter the immortal lines:

“HULK SMASH!”

and

“PUNY HUMANS!”

I seem to recall “PUNY HUMANS!” from the last movie…

I thought Banner was a Geneticist? atleast as portrayed in the previous movie… Bixby’s Banner was certainly a physicist…

[muldoonthief]

@simster

I seem to recall “PUNY HUMANS!” from the last movie…

I thought Banner was a Geneticist? atleast as portrayed in the previous movie… Bixby’s Banner was certainly a physicist…

Bixby’s Banner was a biologist, wasn’t he? He was investigating the phenomenon of hysterical strength - 97 lb mothers lifting cars to save trapped children, etc. In a flashback we find out that his wife died because he couldn’t lift the car she was trapped under, which is why he was so obsessed with this. Somehow they find out that the natural gamma radiation was highest on the days when feats of hysterical strength occur, which is why he irradiated himself with the recently upgraded, but still uncalibrated gamma ray machine.

[Chronos]

I seem to recall “PUNY HUMANS!” from the last movie…

Yes and no. The Hulk doesn’t actually say that out loud; it’s part of one of those psychological sequences so popular of late, where Banner looks into a mirror (or at least, imagines himself doing so) and sees the Hulk staring out at him.

I agree that the timing of this movie seems a bit odd. It’s too soon after the other one for a reimagining, but at the same time, I don’t think the previous one was good or popular enough to warrant a straight sequel. For comparison, it was eight years between Batman and Robin and Batman Begins (and 16 years since the first movie of that sequence), and the Bat is a lot more popular franchise than the Hulk.